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Brazil's Finance Minister Close to Resignation on Corruption Charges
Written by Newsroom
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
The Brazilian Attorney General's Office will file corruption charges against Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, reported Tuesday, November 15, daily Correio Braziliense in Brasília, Brazil's capital.
Quoting prosecutors Aroldo Costa Filho and Sebastião Sérgio de Silveira, the article says there's sufficient evidence to prove that during Mr. Palocci's time as mayor of Ribeirão Preto, the municipality bribed US$ 23,000 a month from the local private waste disposal company.
According to an investigation by prosecutors the money guaranteed the contract between the municipal government headed by Palocci and the Leão Leão Company to which some close supporters of the mayor had links.
The first allegations in the case were revealed by Rogério Buratti, who served as an adviser to Mr. Palocci and later worked for Leão Leão.
Palocci was mayor of Ribeirão Preto from 1993 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2002, when he resigned to join President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration.
The allegations of wrongdoing during his time as mayor of Ribeirão Preto have placed Palocci in a delicate position, with increasing speculation in financial and political circles that he will have to resign in coming days.
Mr. Palocci has been summoned Wednesday before a congressional committee that plans to question him about Brazil's economic policy and the charges against him. The Brazilian press reports the Minister has been out of sight since last Friday, and his office claims he has taken several days off.
Since last May/June President Lula da Silva's Workers Party has been exposed in Congress to corruption charges particularly a regular payments scheme to ensure political support for the administration with money laundered from private and government companies.
The corruption ring that forced the resignation of several close aides of President Lula apparently managed tens of millions of US dollars deposited in local banks and overseas financial havens. This article appeared originally in Mercopress – www.mercopress.com.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, former Iraqi I written by Guest,
November 16, 2005
“Lies I tell you, all lies. No bribes were involved. No money changed hands. This is all a creation of the elitist anti-democratic forces that are seeking to overthrow the duly elected Brazilian government. Refuse to believe any of the news reports. They are all part of a conspiracy to divert attention from the continuing popularity of Presdient Lula and the countless achievements of the PT.”
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.